Robert Larimore Pendleton reports
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of two bound reports: "Soils and Land Use in Peninsular Siam," by Pendleton, and Pendleton's copy of "Soil Series Bibliography," by Charles F. Shaw and Mark Baldwin.
Dates
- Creation: 1938-1949
Creator
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Biographical Note
Robert Larimore Pendleton was a soil scientist and professor of geography at Johns Hopkins University. He was born in Minneapolis, June 5, 1890. Pendleton recieved the Ph.D. from the University of California in 1917 and later studied at language school in India and China. During his early career he worked as an agriculturist in the Phillipines, China, and Siam. Pendleton's field work was mostly in areas of the Far East, and he served as soil technologist to the Ministry of Agriculture in Thailand. 1942, Pendleton returned to the US where he was employed at the Dept. of Agriculture. He was appointed to Hopkins in 1946 and retired as professor emeritus in 1955. Robert Larimore Pendleton died in Los Angeles in 1957.
Extent
0.24 Cubic Feet (1 legal half-size document box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Robert Larimore Pendleton (1890-1957) was a soil scientist and professor of geography at Johns Hopkins University. The collection consists of two bound reports: "Soils and Land Use in Peninsular Siam," by Pendleton, and Pendleton's copy of "Soil Series Bibliography," by Charles F. Shaw and Mark Baldwin. The reports span 1938-1949.
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Subject
- Johns Hopkins University. Department of Geography (Organization)
- Pendleton, Robert Larimore, 1890-1957 (Person)
- Baldwin, Mark (Person)
- Shaw, Charles F. (Person)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Robert Larimore Pendleton reports
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
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